August 16 - 25, 1999 - QuiltHistory

Oral History & Documentation, Quilt History Resources, Regional Quilt History

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Primary topics of this QHL Digest:

QHL Conference Follow-Up — Attendees thank the organizers and share highlights from the recent QHL conference, including a behind-the-scenes visit to a historic textile mill arranged by Rabbit Goody.
‘Slobber Quilts’ and Vintage Terminology — Members trade notes on the folk term ‘slobber quilt’ and other regional names collectors and dealers use for certain vintage quilt styles. (see the article on cotton and textile terms)
Colonial Quilting Research Request — A member preparing a program on Colonial-era quilting asks the list for source recommendations on patterns and period technique. (see the article on early American quilts)
Children’s Books on Quilt History — Members recommend quilt-themed books for children, including work by Tomie dePaola and Linda Otto Lipsett.

Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1999 23:20:45 -0500 | From: Karen Bush <Birdsongworldnet.att.net>

PLEASE don’t misunderstand…you didn;t get my dander up at all!!! Just my own opinion on the way some quilters count, just like anything else…people do things differently. I just didn’t want you or anyone else to be mis-lead!!! Nope, no dander flying here! 🙂 kb —
Ebay Seller, User name: karenbush http://www.idahoquilt.com “Quilt As Desired” the book of Basics and Beyond of Hand Quilting…,

Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 08:07:02 EDT | From: Baglady111aol.com

T have any of you enjoyed the relatively new magazine of HARRIS PUBLISHING called SAMPLER QUILTS? Jean Ann Eitel is the editor and what a neat mag..I just received #13 and always find articles /patterns I can use in my round table discussion workshop..I guess I like it because of the ‘old timey’ patterns..but also, some I had not heard of..DEBBY KRATOVIL writes alot of the articles..she does a great job

Another thing that I like..especially in THIS issue is QUILT AS DESIRED,,Your Quilt Top is Finished, Now What? So they begin by telling you the first steps of actually getting ready for the quilting. The next article is HOW TO SEW HAND APPLIQUE.
3rd is BUILDING BETTER BORDERS
4th is PRAIRIE POINTS, then SEWING YOUR SIGNATURE
It just takes you right thru…

and as I mentioned before, because I use old timey patterns for hand outs at my workshops, I always lean to QUILT and QULTS sister magazines..PERFECT for a feedsack workshop…FOR ANY that deals in the old standards…buy it..enjoy it!! Nice job, Jean Ann .
Jane of THE FEEDSACK CLUB http://members.aol.com/baglady111/

Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 14:37:46 EDT | From: CGLIEBERaol.com

Can anybody help with this subject? A young woman who is studying Clothing Technolgy in Hamburg, Germany wants to come to the United States next spring and take classes and work on her English.

If you have any suggestions, would you please e-mail me at CGLieberaol.com.
Many Thanks. Caroline

Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 09:43:04 -0400 | From: Kris_Driessenhesc.com

> November 20-21, 1999, there will be an Antique Textile, Vintage FAshion, and Decorative Arts Show at Jim Miller Park, in Marietta. The advert says antique fabrics, linens, lace from the 1800s to the 1960s. Sounds like FUN. It’s a long way off, but thought those of you in the area might be interested.

Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 09:48:04 -0500 (Central Daylight Time) | From: Mary Persyn <Mary.Persynvalpo.edu>

While searching for a gas station in Buffalo, NY on our way home from the QHL Conference, Pat Lyons and I stopped in a Toys R Us looking for Textile fiber slides. We weren’t all that impressed with their selection of fibers, so when I got home I ordered the textile fiber slides from Edmund Scientific.

They arrived today and I thought I’d tell the conference attendees what is in the set in case you are interested in ordering them. The web site doesn’t indicate what all is in the set. They are 13.95? a set and 12.50 for 2 or more sets. There is also a shipping charge.

The slides are prepared in Japan so that may have some bearing on the slide labels. There are 12 slides and they are labeled: silk stuff, hemp fiber, camel hair, panya fiber, handmade paper, wool, sheep hair manufacture, angora rabbit, bemberg dechine, silk nest slender, cotton fibre, and nylon chemistry.

If Rabbit is out there, or someone else with some knowledge in textiles, can you tell me what silk stuff, panya fiber, sheep hair manufacture, bemberg dechine, and silk nest slender are?

I found Rabbit’s presentations on textiles at the Conference fascinating, and look forward to many happy hours with my little microscope.
Thanks for any information.

Mary in Valparaiso where the students are coming back and orientation starts in less than 48 hours. Where did the summer go?
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Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 11:42:37 -0700 | From: “Debora C. Wykes” <wykesfcntdi.net>

Qhl listers:

I know that there are not many pre-Civil War quilts left to view, but is there any scholarship on quilts during the 1812 era? The women sewed beautifully on their own clothing, especially with the French Canadian influence, so there should be some quilting somewhere? I am a wife of a museum curator heavily involved in a 1812 re-enactment this weekend on Lake Erie. I’ve made period clothing and seen embroidery of the time, but so far nothing on quilts. Right now, my “volunteer job” is to teach school for the kids who come and to cook bannock on the fire for the Lantern Tour in the evening. Hey, if I get to do something I enjoy, like quilting, maybe I can have more fun next year.
Debbie Wykes
Monroe, MI

Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 12:07:57 -0400 | From: Kris_Driessenhesc.com

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You should have come to our QHL conference! Rabbit Goody got us a behind the scenes look at the NYS Historicial Associations quilts, overseen by the most patient museum curator in existence. We were able to poke and prod to our hearts content, white gloved of course. She even took us to the storage area and we examined quite a few textiles (clothing included) until our time finally ran out. Everything Rabbit pulled out for us to look at was pre 1810, and a couple were late 1700’s. I will admit to being amazed at what was being done back then.

I don’t know of anything specific to the war years, though. I might make the guess that perhaps quilts were not being used as a political statement then, although I don’t know that for a fact.

I just digressed a little bit, looking up when Temperance quilts were made. My memory says pre-civil war, but I found this interesting web page indicating that the WTCU wasn’t actually founded until 1877. Although maybe that is referring to Canada.
http://www.museumfortextiles.on.ca/mtgtxtwc.html
Comments?
Kris
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Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 12:16:06 -0400 | From: “jawhitecourant.infi.net” <jawhitecourant.infi.net>

In a college text book of mine, “Born for Liberty-A History of Women in America” by Sara M. Evans, it says that the WCTU emerged in 1874. Frances Willard was president from 1879 to 1899 and the WCTU was an “open and democratic female environment–a free space within which women experimented and pushed their traditional self-definitions past the boundaries of domesticity and into the broadest demand for full political participation.” Men were not allowed to join.
jw

Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 12:30:46 -0400 | From: “Phyllis Twigg” <ptwiggradix.net>

I haven’t had time before today to sit down at the computer to thank Kris and John for putting together a conference that was the most informative I’ve ever attended. Well, if there is one exception it could only be last year’s QHL conference in Lowell. I’m amazed at the Driessen ability to squeeze in the most knowledgeable speakers on topics that mean most to me.

I just returned from the World Quilt & Textile Conference in Greensboro, North Carolina where I took classes with Barbara Brackman. They were great classes but it was necessary to be there 3 days to fit in 1 1/2 days of quilt history. The QHL Conferences have been the most time effective as well as cost effective that I’ve ever attended. Plus, they’re just down right fun!
Hey, Kris, keep up the good work!!
Phyllis Twigg

Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 11:34:35 -0500 (Central Daylight Time) | From: Mary Persyn <Mary.Persynvalpo.edu>

I’ve been asked the URL for Edmunds Scientific. Sorry, I should have included it in my original message. They are at www.edsci.com item is Prepared Slides of Textile Fibres
Stock # CR39-875 $13.95 2 or more $12.50 ea
Mary

Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:08:29 -0700 | From: Marilyn Maddalena <marilyncrl.com>

I’ve been asked to present a program on Colonial quilting — patterns, etc. I’m beginning to do my research now. Do any of you have any books or other reference sources which might give me some information? The program I present currently — Potatoes to Patchwork — starts at the Revolutionary War, so this Colonial program will end at the Revolutionary War. Any advice will be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 13:37:28 -0600 | From: “Cindy Brick” <Brickworksfnmail.com>

Although this Yankee will probably be run out of the country for saying it (!!!), I’ve learned a great deal about quilts from that period through QUILTS OF THE BRITISH ISLES, by Janet Rae. (Deirdre McDonald book, 1996). Certainly CALICO & CHINTZ by Jeremy Adamson (Smithsonian, 1997) should be helpful too, though it centers more in the early 1800s. And, of course, there’s AMERICA’S QUILTS & COVERLETS by Safford & Bishop. I have learned a lot from any of Robert Bishop’s books, though I have, more than once, heard him gently chided for being a little too quick to assume things. (Saw this myself in one case…)

A library search should turn up the books, though I saw BRITISH ISLES for sale as a remainder just recently through Hamilton Booksellers. It’s well worth purchasing.
Cindy
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Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 18:17:26 EDT | From: QuiltEvalsaol.com

Any Australian QHL’ers, please email me privately….thanks, Deborah Roberts
Certified Appraiser

Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 22:42:35 -0500 | From: “Peggy McBride” <jlmpam@>

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I hate to complain, and I do enjoy this list even if I don’t contribute a lot – I learn a lot – BUT

With the education level of the people on this list, it seems to me we could learn to post to the list in plain text and to not repeat messages. The last digest (227) had several messages that were repeated in full, in mime, and they were repeated again. I believe one message was in there three different times.

On my computer – using Outlook Express – go to tools – check on options and check on send: take the check mark out of the box where it refers to repeating messages when replying, and check on plain text. It is not difficult – and I am sure it is just as simple on whatever other programs are being used by the members of this list.

It is only common courtesy to do this. We, I am sure have people who are paying download time, and they I am sure do not want to pay for the download of the same message over and over. Also, those who have limited room in their mail box don’t want it filled up with repeats, repeats, and repeats, and the endless gobbledogoo of MIME messages
Peggy Mc

Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 01:00:34 -0400 | From: “Judy Grow” <Judygrow@>

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As many of you who attended the conference in Greenville, NY, know, I received emergency phone calls on Thursday night from a frantic brother (about to leave on a combined business and pleasure trip) about DM, who at the age of 86, had the night before fallen and given herself a compound fracture in the same leg that she had broken last year. On Sunday night I returned home to NJ, and on Monday I flew to Fort Worth to spend the week with DM, moving her from the hospital to a rehab facility, where she will remain for at least 8 weeks. Mother is not cooperating with the doctors, therapists, or daily care-givers, and although she will not lose the leg as in the worst case scenario, neither will she ever be able to take care of herself again. So, we are closing up her apartment, and making arrangements for her to go into a nursing home when rehab kicks her out. I know many of you who knew about the problem were concerned and so I wanted to let you know.

I was surprised when I got home and got caught up on e-mail that there was so little said on QHL about the conference. So let me plunge in. Many thanks to list-mother Kris Dreissen and DH John, for the time and effort they put in to make this conference a memorable one for us. The speakers, as usual, were tops in their specialty areas, and were as free with their knowledge as could be.

Most of us had always thought of Rabbit Goody in terms of weaving and coverlets, and in that area I am sure there is no one with more knowledge. But she taught us how to look at textile fibers through small, portable (and inexpensive) microscopes and see the differences between wool, cotton, linen, and silk, so now we should never be stumped by what the fiber content of a quilt really is. We learned how to tell the difference between hand weaving and machine weaving, which will help in dating textiles. Lots of exciting other stuff, too, but I guess the most special time with Rabbit was having her give DH Allan, Newbie Richardson, and me a behind-the-scenes tour of the Farmer’s Museum in Cooperstown. Because we were with her we got to walk into the rooms, not just stand outside the plexi screen at the door-frames, and we saw how her weavings were put to use in the reconstructions — and some interesting furniture stuff as well! What impressed me so much about Rabbit was how much she loves what she is doing, and how that excitement over everthing textile-related just pours out of her.

The day-and-a-half spent with Merikay Waldvogel were hours crammed full of ways to see and date quilts. Especially interesting to me was the information she gave us on kit quilts, and the early 20th century pattern sources. At the end of each session she made piles of the quilts we had all brought for show-and-tell, oldest on top, to newest on the bottom, 1850-1900, then 1900-1950 in the second session, and we found dating them much easier.

Barb Garret, as usual, ably led our show and tell sessions. The first, at “Heartworks Quilts” near Cooperstown, started outside, and then was called because of 3 or 4 raindrops. Actually, we were all hoping for much more rain, but the chance to go inside and shop some more didn’t bother us too much.

Because I had to “drag” DH around and he had to be fed (food and antiques) regularly and a lot, we missed a few sessions, but even with missing some, the knowledge that was available just by chatting with the other conference attendees was formidable. For instance, Newbie Richardson, showed us how a woman from 1830 might alter her dress, 3 or maybe 4 times, through changing fashions and pregnancy, and economics, so that the same dress would serve her, sometimes for 30 years.
And the clues to what had been done could be found in pocket placement, old stitching lines, armhole height, size of sleeve. And then it would be put in a quilt.

At least 2 of the conference attendees were redwork experts; of course Cindy Brick was our Crazy Quilt expert, and Jane Staple our Feedsack expert. Kathy Greenwold gave the farewell address, on the future of quilting. Kathy is an expert traditional quilter, an appraiser, and is also an art quilter, and gave a wonderful presentation on some of the new techniques for manipulating fabrics.

I forget the name of the attendee who did it, but one show and tell that we will not easily forget was the clone quilt made in the exact likeness of a crazy sampler quilt from circa 1870. The original quilt had been bought at Brimfield, already cut down the middle into two pieces. The dealer had tried to pass them off as 2 separate pieces, but our quilter showed her the error of her ways. Hey! Nancy Kirk! Here’s one you and the rest of the members of the Dead Quilt Society should see!

Will the quilter please step forward and identify herself once more? I apologize for forgetting your name.

Our accomodations at this year’s conference were certainly different than at last year’s conference at the Doubletree in Lowell. More Spartan, to say the least. But Kris and John made sure everyone was quite comfortable, and I doubt that there were any real problems. I think we all got used to not being able to phone out from anywhere but the one phone at the restaurant, but it was always available to us, no matter how late. As for me, I couldn’t get used to eating early. If you waited too long, you starved, cause the town closed up tight at 9:30, even on the weekend! I don’t know what Kris and John have in store for us next year, but I am sure we’ll all come away with great knowledge, great new friends, and great memories, again.
Judy in Ringoes, NJ judygrow@

PS. If any of you ever have to fly on a medical emergency, don’t give up when you are quoted an inflated air-fare. American Airlinew wanted to charge me $1464.00 for round trip from Newark to DFW, and ignored my plea for a better fare. I wound up flying U.S. Airways from Philadelphia (just as easy for me) to DFW for $424.00. Of course, I waited on the phone while US Airways called the hospital to verify the doctor’s name, patient’s name, etc. Make sure you have all that information when you call for your tickets, and don’t give up and buy that expensive ticket!

Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 02:07:17 -0400 | From: “Judy Grow” <Judygrow@>

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I am stumped on this one on e-bay. I think it is from Panama, or Guatamala, or Costa Rica, maybe. Certainly not American Arts and Crafts Movement! http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=147623741 147623741 Unbeliveable ARTS & CRAFTS APPLIQUE QUILT Can anyone help?
Judy in Ringoes, NJ judygrow@

Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 17:02:08 +1000 | From: Lorraine Olsson <sven@>

IMHO it looks very much like Thai patchwork.

This is a craft that is being encouraged by (possibly) aid agencies to help women become independent. It is not a copy of American quilting, but an expression of the local patterns and art.

I have a friend who was in Thailand, and bought a small piece of this art, about the size of one of the quilt blocks. It is very fine applique work.

I hope there is someone else out there who can say for sure, what this piece actually is.
Lorraine in Oz
Judy Grow wrote:

> I am stumped on this one on e-bay. I think it is from Panama, or Guatamala, or Costa Rica, maybe. Certainly not American Arts and Crafts Movement!

> http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=147623741

> 147623741 Unbeliveable ARTS & CRAFTS APPLIQUE QUILT

> Can anyone help?

> Judy in Ringoes, NJ judygrow@

Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 05:06:29 -0400 | From: “sue reich” <mreich@>

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Ditto the praise to Chris, John, family and staff for a most informative, relaxing and enjoyable Conference. They truly could not do enough to make everyone’s stay as comfortable as possible. It was a great pleasure to meet all of you and be able to attach names to your QHL listings. I did not attend last year’s but I can’t wait to receive the dates for the 2000 conference. Thanks again, Chris and John. This week, I am off to Cambridge Springs, PA. to the Riverside Inn for a family reunion. This Victorian inn is on the National Registry. It is extremely reasonable price-wise with breakfast included. If it was located in the Northeast, the room rates would be $200-500/night. In northwestern PA, the rooms are $65-85/night. The rooms are all period. There is a huge comfy lobby with overstuffed sofas and fainting couches and the single T.V. and phone booth. There are loads of larger conference type rooms. The wrap-around porch beckons you to sit on cushioned- wicker rockers. The gardens are beautifully landscaped with French Creek flowing along one side. Anyone needing a place to plan classes or lectures in that part of the world, will find it a most perfect spot. =20
Enjoy what remains of the summer of ‘ 99.
sue reich
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Ditto the praise to Chris, John, family and staff = for a most=20 informative, relaxing and enjoyable Conference. They truly could = not do=20 enough to make everyone’s stay as comfortable as possible. It was = a great=20 pleasure to meet all of you and be able to attach names to your QHL=20 listings. I did not attend last year’s but I can’t wait to receive = the=20 dates for the 2000 conference. Thanks again, Chris and = John.

This week, I am off to Cambridge Springs, PA. = to the=20 Riverside Inn for a family reunion. This Victorian inn is on the = National=20 Registry. It is extremely reasonable price-wise with breakfast=20 included. If it was located in the Northeast, the room rates would = be=20 $200-500/night. In northwestern PA, the rooms are = $65-85/night. The=20 rooms are all period. There is a huge comfy lobby with overstuffed sofas = and=20 fainting couches and the single T.V. and phone booth. There are = loads of=20 larger conference type rooms. The wrap-around porch beckons you to = sit on=20 cushioned- wicker rockers. The gardens are beautifully landscaped = with=20 French Creek flowing along one side. Anyone needing a place to = plan=20 classes or lectures in that part of the world, will find it a most = perfect=20 spot.

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Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 07:33:24 -0500 | From: Laura Hobby Syler <texas_quilt.co@>

Kris,

Is this something that the server could be doing with the digests? There does not seem to be this kind of problem with the individual posts to the list…..just some of the digests.
Laura
At 10:42 PM 08/19/1999 -0500, Peggy McBride wrote:

>I hate to complain, and I do enjoy this list even if I don’t contribute a lot – I learn a lot – BUT

>With the education level of the people on this list, it seems to me we could learn to post to the list in plain text and to not repeat messages.

>The last digest (227) had several messages that were repeated in full, in mime, and they were repeated again. I believe one message was in there three different times.

>On my computer – using Outlook Express – go to tools – check on options and check on send: take the check mark out of the box where it refers to repeating messages when replying, and check on plain text. It is not difficult – and I am sure it is just as simple on whatever other programs are being used by the members of this list.

>It is only common courtesy to do this. We, I am sure have people who are paying download time, and they I am sure do not want to pay for the download of the same message over and over. Also, those who have limited room in their mail box don’t want it filled up with repeats, repeats, and repeats, and the endless gobbledogoo of MIME messages

>Peggy Mc

Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 08:57:15 EDT | From: Qltldy10@

In a message dated 8/20/99 6:10:57 AM !!!First Boot!!!, Judygrow@ writes:

<< http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=147623741 >>
Hi Judy and all,

It bears some resemblance to the work of Hmong women, possibly from Southeast Asia?? Not quite their usual color or fineness of curve— wonder if they are quickly making quilts for export, too?
Beth in Maine

Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 09:42:46 EDT | From: Lynbr20601@

CPTV must have its head buried in the sand…

i was fortunate enough to have to been one of the quilters who had a quilt in the show on the PBS(WGBY) in Springfield Mass..the show was titled New England Quilters and when i spoke to a woman at the station…she said that NE Quilters. was successful as a fund raiser…and they’re repeating it on the 28th..It will follow the America Quilts program….
jean

Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 12:15:10 EDT | From: QLTKAREN@

In a message dated 8/19/99 8:21:06 PM !!!First Boot!!!, celia@ writes:
<< Non-members: �10 plus �2 p&p. >>

I would love to order this book, can someone please translate this for me!
Karen Osborne

Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 12:15:24 -0700 | From: Marilyn Maddalena <marilyn@>

The PBS station in Redding, CA, had an extremely successful quilting show on= August 9th. They ran America Quilts, from the Wisconsin PBS affiliate, plus= they did their own show called North State Quilters, which featured the CA= Sesquicentennial Quilt with Helen Powell, the Project Coordinator,= explaining all the various portions of that quilt, and they taped many= quilters from that area doing quilting tips and techniques, plus they had= about five live segments from quilters in the studio during the evening,= and quilters on the phone. The entire studio was filled with quilts — they= also had a quilt appraisal day the day before the show, which raised more= money for the station. The local quilt guild helped sponsor that night with= a financial donation as well as handling the phone banks and assisting the= station in filming the various quilters. The goal was 50 memberships for= that evening; when we went off the air, they had 64 — by the end of the= night, with the phones still ringing, they had 79 pledges! They re-ran the= show the following Sunday, and the last I heard the pledges had topped= $10,000 — from that one quilting show. That may not be a lot for some of= the bigger stations,but it was a great success for a station the size of= Redding, and I think a lot of PBS folks were pleasantly surprised. Like I= said, you can’t miss when you get quilters together! I believe it was the= most memberships ever during a locally-produced pledge show. Of course,= The Three Tenors and RiverDance brought in more — but they had to pay for= those, too! The quilters did it with all volunteers. Makes me proud to be= a quilter in Northern California! Share this success story with your own= PBS station — you just might be able to convince them to do the same= thing!=20
Marilyn Maddalena
“Sew Special”
Quilt Appraiser — Quilt Judge — Quilt Historian

“Potatoes to Patchwork” — a trunk show on antique quilts Publications Chair, NQA, <italic>The Quilting Quarterly </italic>Secretary, CHQP
Check out my website: http://www.crl.com/~marilyn

Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 15:17:03 -0400 | From: Vivien Lee Sayre <vsayre@>

Hi Everyone,
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For all of my fellow appraisers, historians and budding historians I have a new book to report. I just saw an advance copy of <italic>The New England Quilt Museum Quilts</italic>, written by Jennifer Gilbert, at The New England Quilt Museum, (NEQM). C&T Publishing has published this book on the history of the Museum. The book covers the historical background of the City of Lowell, including the Mill Girls. (I love this chapter!).=20 It discusses the quilts in the collection of the Museum from the pre-industrial quilts, up to and including contemporary quilts. It even has a wonderful chapter written by Susan Wellnetz on care and storage of textiles. Susan is a conservator at The American Textile History Museum in Lowell, and part of the Mass. Quilt Documentation Steering Committee. The book also has projects and templates including Variable Star, Burgoyne Surrounded, Boston Pavement, etc. The patterns are taken from those in the collection of NEQM, so we know they are early and authentic.

Consider all of the above THE CAKE. Now here comes THE ICING. RJR has come out with a reproduction line of fabrics to coincide with the book, based on fabrics found in the quilts in the NEQM collection. They include, The Lowell Star Collection, The Lowell Shirtings Collection and The Lowell Double Pink Collection. I had a chance to examine and handle them. What fun!! I would love to have at least a yard of each. They are very close to the originals and will make the job of appraisers even harder.
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The book costs $22.95, but I don’t know how much the fabric will be selling for. RJR has donated a large amount of yardage to the museum and you can buy fat quarters in the shop for $2.50.
I believe NEQM is taking orders for the book, and we would probably have to add about $3.00 if we want the book shipped. I do know NEQM members receive at 10% discount. Oh Joy, Oh Rapture! NEQM’s phone number is 978-452-4207.
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Please understand, I receive no compensation of any kind for this review. Just wanted to share what I found. Hope you enjoy it as much as I do.
=20
Vivien,=20
In Massachusetts where it is cool at last.

Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 21:14:04 +0100 | From: “Celia Eddy” <celia@>

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Attempted clarification of ordering procedure:

From America (or anywhere outside Europe) you can order the Journal from the The Quilters’ Guild of the British Isles at the address given in my previous message. Telephone, write or Fax your order to them.

If you ARE a member of BQSG, cost is �8 plus �2 p.& p. Please include your membership number with your order.

If you are NOT a member of BQSG, cost is �10 plus �2 p.& p. For people living in Europe, cost of Journal is the same but postage costs only �1 plus p.&p.
You can pay by Visa, Mastercard or Access.

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Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 14:45:27 -0600 | From: “Cindy Brick” <Brickworks@>

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This sounds absolutely wonderful…I think you just talked me into buying a copy!
Cindy
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From: Vivien Lee Sayre [mailto:vsayre@]
Sent: Friday, August 20, 1999 1:17 PM
To: QHL@
Subject: QHL: Another new book and FABRIC TOO!
Hi Everyone,

For all of my fellow appraisers, historians and budding historians I have a new book to report. I just saw an advance copy of The New England Quilt Museum Quilts, written by Jennifer Gilbert, at The New England Quilt Museum, (NEQM). C&T Publishing has published this book on the history of the Museum. The book covers the historical background of the City of Lowell, including the Mill Girls. (I love this chapter!). It discusses the quilts in the collection of the Museum from the pre-industrial quilts, up to and including contemporary quilts. It even has a wonderful chapter written by Susan Wellnetz on care and storage of textiles. Susan is a conservator at The American Textile History Museum in Lowell, and part of the Mass. Quilt Documentation Steering Committee. The book also has projects and templates including Variable Star, Burgoyne Surrounded, Boston Pavement, etc. The patterns are taken from those in the collection of NEQM, so we know they are early and authentic.

The book costs $22.95, but I don’t know how much the fabric will be selling for. RJR has donated a large amount of yardage to the museum and you can buy fat quarters in the shop for $2.50. I believe NEQM is taking orders for the book, and we would probably have to add about $3.00 if we want the book shipped. I do know NEQM members receive at 10% discount. Oh Joy, Oh Rapture! NEQM’s phone number is 978-452-4207.

Please understand, I receive no compensation of any kind for this review. Just wanted to share what I found. Hope you enjoy it as much as I do.
Vivien,
In Massachusetts where it is cool at last.
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This=20 sounds absolutely wonderful…I think you just talked me into buying a=20 copy!

Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 14:14:29 -0700 | From: “Julia D. Zgliniec” <rzglini1@>

Dear QHL,

While trying to call to place my order for the Journal of the British Quilt Study Group, I realized the office is closed because it is about 10pm there. DUH I found the following site which does a “time zone” conversion. You can use it to figure out WHEN to call the office to place your order if using a Credit Card. I personally do not want to FAX my card # off into “space”.
http://www.burbs.com/fcgi-bin/tzconvert.fcgi

Hope this helps save someone on an international call charge.
Julia

Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 17:12:02 EDT | From: QLTKAREN@

OKay Celia, doing my *math*! i come out with $19.20 in american currency. That seems very cheap. And can we send personal checks or money orders or do we need to get something else.

Sorry to be such a bother, but I would really like a book!
Karen

Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 11:51:17 -0600 | From: “Cindy Brick” <Brickworks@>

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I’d bet, dimes to dollars, that they have an extra piece of fabric tacked across the top — better known as a ‘whisker protector.’
Cindy B
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From: LindaKoe@ [mailto:LindaKoe@]
Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 1999 8:36 PM
To: QHL@
Subject: QHL: Re: Slobber quilts?
Help, please.

I met a woman today who told me she bought two quilts in Ohio that the seller described as “slobber” quilts. Any idea what that means? I hope to see the actual quilts next week and to be able to take a few pictures. In the meantime, wondered what light you QHL experts might be able to shed.
Thanks!!
Linda Koe
Kirkwood Quilts

Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 16:20:37 -0500 | From: “M. Denney” <melissadenney@>

Dear QHL Members,

My name is Melissa Denney. Two people recommended your group to me, Betty Reynolds and Heddi Craft.

I am looking for a quilt history book for children. In particular, I would like to know the history of signature/message and friendship quilts. Do you have any ideas where I might get such a book?

I am a parent and quilter. I have been asked the media specialist at my son’s school to help her with a school-wide project. We are writing a proposal for a grant to complete a quilt. It is a cultural arts and social studies-based project. There will be 271 students participating, first through fifth grade. It will include both hands-on projects, history and social studies lessons.

The school theme this year is “Taking You To The Next Millennium.” We have temporarily named our quilt “Message In A Quilt.” In the square in the middle of each block, each classroom will write a message to the children of the next century and/or millennium. They will also mail squares for messages.

For the history and social studies classes, I am using “Hearts & Hands: Women, Quilts & American Society” and “The American Quilt: a History of Cloth and Comfort” as reference material. I am trying to obtain the video companion to “The American Quilt” series. Can you recommend any other history references specifically about signature and/or friendship quilts or a history written for children?
Thank you in advance for your help.
M.
Melissa Denney
Auburn, Alabama, USA

Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 18:25:03 -0600 | From: “Cindy Brick” <Brickworks@>

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Melissa,

If you will go to the website above, you’ll find one episode from “Simply Quilts” that deals with signature and friendship quilts. Another one, #107, is on friendship and memorial quilts. I think some sort of arrangement could be made to get a copy of this video, too…

The only source I know of that has the AMERICAN QUILT series on video is the library of QUILTER’S NEWSLETTER MAGAZINE. They occasionally let outside researchers use the library, though don’t usually loan things. They may, considering what you need it for, make an exception — you may want to try calling them at (303) 278-1010, and ask.

Penny McMorris, the hostess of that series, might have access to some videos. (I’d be surprised if she didn’t!) Her company is ELECTRIC QUILT (try as keyword on search)…you can e-mail her from that website. Pepper Cory and Susan McKelvey have an absolutely wonderful book out on signature quilts: THE SIGNATURE QUILT: TRADITIONS, TECHNIQUES AND THE SIGNATURE BLOCK COLLECTION (Quilt House Publishing, 1995). Well worth having in your library — it is that meaty.

Another good book on signature quilts is REMEMBER ME (Quilt Digest Press) by…I am blanking on the author. That one tells the story of individual signature quilts, although it deals somewhat with the general style.
Hope this helps. Cindy Brick

Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 20:14:00 -0500 | From: Laura Hobby Syler <texas_quilt.co@>

Tomy DePaulo has done several books with quilt related themes for children, and the Quilt Story is one of them. Is the “Quilts in Women’s Lives” the Ferrero film from the early 80’s? I don’t think that would be too entertaining for children. There are some wonderful stories about quilters and their lives (most of whom have since passed away). There is however a new documentary to be aired on HGTV in November “Quilts: Threads of our Heritage” Done in 6-10 minute segments ( I guess to accommodate commercial <G>) it starts out with some contemporary quilters and how they do what they do, some family/quilt history stuff , an African-American quilting group from the Denver area and ends up with quilt projects for children (Ronald Mc Donald type projects). I know I’m forgetting something but I’ve only seen it once and then very briefly. Cindy Brick and I had the honor of being interviewed for the documentary. We should know exact air date by the end of the week.

I’ll check my library notes (former 1st grade teacher here) and see if I can come up with anything else.
Laura
Lynbr20601@ wrote:

>there’s a wonderful video of a documentary called The Quilts in Women’s Lives…and there are a couple of real young books for very young children called The Tortilla Quilt and the other one i think is called the Quilt Story…there are probably lots more..the America Quilts video is not a history type video…it’s more what people are putting into quilt shows today…
>jean

Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:39:59 -0600 | From: “Cindy Brick” <Brickworks@>

“M. Denney” <melissadenney@>, <QHL@>
Subject: RE: QHL: RE: signature quilts

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Ha!!! At least my brain is not totally dead — Linda Otto Lipsett’s wedding book is called TO LOVE AND CHERISH

Here you see a direct example in action of QHLers complementing each other…what would I do without you all? A lot less, that’s for sure.
Cindy
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From: Laura Hobby Syler [mailto:texas_quilt.co@]

Linda Otto Lipsett had done several books the research on particular quilts. She is the author of “Remember Me” and one on wedding quilts….I forget the name of that one! Also, “Forget Me Not: A gallery of Friendship and Album Quilts” by Jane Bently Kolter, and “Shared Threads: Quilting Together, Past & Present” by Jacqueline Marx. Of course, Susan and Pepper’s book on Signature quilts is a must for any research. I reviewed all of these books in the April ’98 issue of the Vintage Quilt & Textile Society newsletter when I wrote the cover article, “Friends are Friends Forever” Also, the June ’99 issue article “Remember Me:” talks more about the actual signatures, inks and quotes some prose taken from quilts.
Laura
At 06:25 PM 08/25/1999 -0600, Cindy Brick wrote:

>http://www.hgtv.com/shows/QLT/qlt-316.html

Melissa,

If you will go to the website above, you’ll find one episode from “Simply Quilts” that deals with signature and friendship quilts. Another one, #107,

>is on friendship and memorial quilts. I think some sort of arrangement

could

>be made to get a copy of this video, too…

>The only source I know of that has the AMERICAN QUILT series on video is

the

>library of QUILTER’S NEWSLETTER MAGAZINE. They occasionally let outside researchers use the library, though don’t usually loan things. They may, considering what you need it for, make an exception — you may want to try calling them at (303) 278-1010, and ask.

Penny McMorris, the hostess of that series, might have access to some

>videos. (I’d be surprised if she didn’t!) Her company is ELECTRIC QUILT

(try

>as keyword on search)…you can e-mail her from that website.

>Pepper Cory and Susan McKelvey have an absolutely wonderful book out on signature quilts: THE SIGNATURE QUILT: TRADITIONS, TECHNIQUES AND THE SIGNATURE BLOCK COLLECTION (Quilt House Publishing, 1995). Well worth

having

>in your library — it is that meaty.

>Another good book on signature quilts is REMEMBER ME (Quilt Digest Press) by…I am blanking on the author. That one tells the story of individual signature quilts, although it deals somewhat with the general style.

>Hope this helps. Cindy Brick

Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 20:26:24 -0500 | From: Laura Hobby Syler <texas_quilt.co@